The Indigenous actor called out Martin Scorsese’s latest film for its “painful, grueling, unrelenting and unnecessarily graphic” violence against the Osage people, though she also had praise for its leading lady: “Give Lily her goddamn Oscar.”
Jacobs, an Indigenous Canadian actor, starred in FX’s critically acclaimed, recently wrapped comedy, which follows four Indigenous teenagers on a reservation in Oklahoma. Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon is about members of the Osage Nation that were murdered in 1920s Oklahoma, and stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, and Lily Gladstone. The film opened on Friday, October 20, and won the weekend box office, earning $44 million and cementing its status as a serious Oscar contender.
” Still, Jacobs was firm in her belief that Killers of the Flower Moon contributed to the relentless persecution of Indigenous people onscreen. “I can’t believe it needs to be said, but Indig ppl exist beyond our grief, trauma & atrocities,” she wrote. “Our pride for being Native, our languages, cultures, joy & love are way more interesting & humanizing than showing the horrors white men inflicted on us.
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